Former resident continues campaign against petroleum dependency

Jan Lundberg has been in the oil business a long time. For the last 37 years, the life-long activist — who called Arcata home for 12 years — has worked as both an oil industry analyst and in the nonprofit world, championing the campaign against society’s dependence on petroleum and what he calls the


According to Culture Change’s Web site, peak oil theorizes that the Earth has already reached the halfway point for oil production, and the other half still in the ground is harder to extract and may not fuel the global economy or even provide for a transition to another phase. Lundberg founded the group.

The Bay Area-based nonprofit sets out to change the way people live in an attempt to decrease the use of petroleum, especially in the face of population growth, resource depletion and climate change, Lundberg said.